GCI’s Commitment to Quality Healthcare Throughout Alaska

History of Rural Commitment

» 1995: Began the first DAMA deployments

» 1998: Deployed the first Alaska telehealth network in the federal program

» 2003: Spent $25m for a 125 village rollout of first generation wireless

Internet service

» 2006: Committed $40m to Rural Wireless rollout for cell/data in all Alaska

villages

» 2006-2009: Committed $60m for Kodiak, South East and Fairbanks Alaska

fiber routes

» 2010: Committed funding and begin building TERRA Project

ConnectMD Medical Network

» The largest medical network in the Pacific Northwest: Connect MD

» A collaborative environment of over 200 clinics, hospitals, and medical

organizations throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

ConnectMD Members

• Alaska Island Community Center

• Alaska Psychiatric Institute

• Alaska Regional Medical Center

• Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation

• Cascade Medical Center

• Central Washington Hospital

• Fairbanks Memorial Hospital

• Ferry County Memorial Hospital

• Harborview Radiology

• Harrison Memorial Hospital

• Ketchikan General Hospital

• Kodiak Island Community Health Center

• Lake Chelan Community Hospital

• Maniilaq Health Center

• Mid-Valley Hospital

• North Slope Borough Health and Social Services

• North Valley Hospital

• Norton Sound Health Corporation

• Okanagan Douglas County Hospital

• Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital

• Seattle Children’s Hospital

• Swedish Medical Center

• University of Washington Medicine Radiology

• Virginia Mason Medical Center

• Wenatchee Valley Medical Center

• Yukon Flats Health Center

• Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation

TERRA

» The TERRA Vision: Terrestrial for Every Region of Rural Alaska

» What is TERRA?

• Hybrid fiber optic and microwave network

• Removes limitations of satellite service

• Will provide symmetrical broadband service

» Why TERRA?

• Participation in the modern economy requires broadband connectivity

• Rural users have seen increases in available services, but are not at parity with

urban users

• Modern applications are challenged by the latency and capacity constraints of

satellite

TERRA

• GCI applied to USDA-RUS for an award to build TERRA-SW

• First round attracted 2,200 applicants requesting over $28B

• GCI received notification of an $88M award on Jan. 25:

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About GCI’s Funded Project

• Will provide terrestrial connectivity to 65 villages in the Bristol Bay and Yukon-Kuskokwim regions

• Interconnects with existing DeltaNet network

• Hybrid fiber/microwave network• 14 new microwave towers (4 remote/mountaintop)

• 7 new cable landing stations

• 9 new fiber segments (subsea, lakebed and buried)

• GCI will offer a well-provisioned wireless residential Internet service in the region at urban-equivalent rates

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• Map

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Schedule

Grant requires three years to completion– Clock starts at closing of award - anticipated late Summer 2010

• 2009: Initial permitting, early design

• 2010: Permitting; site survey; site acquisition; upgrade of existing microwave sites; equipment and fiber manufacturing

• 2011: Construction of microwave sites, cable landing stations and majority of fiber network

• 2012: Construction of remaining microwave sites and remaining fiber segment

• 2013: Project completion

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Next job: Norton Sound and Northwest Arctic

• GCI submitted second round application to USDA-RUS March 29, 2010

• Application builds terrestrial network to most Norton Sound and Northwest Arctic communities

• GCI requested

– Grant: $108,213,247.00

– Loan: $46,377,107.00

• Project would “close the ring” with route east to the pipeline fiber

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Thank you.

Krag Johnsen

Director, Rural Broadband Development

kjohnsen@gci.com

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